Re: Adding PGInstaller to the Downloads section - Mailing list pgsql-www

From Justin Clift
Subject Re: Adding PGInstaller to the Downloads section
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Msg-id 1ef13e7cc4725f0d6b26fe58e1d2488d@postgresql.org
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In response to Re: Adding PGInstaller to the Downloads section  (Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>)
Responses Re: Adding PGInstaller to the Downloads section  ("Jonathan S. Katz" <jkatz@postgresql.org>)
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On 2018-08-28 20:06, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 28, 2018 at 08:01:12PM +0100, Justin Clift wrote:
>> On 2018-08-28 18:32, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>> >Well, if we have another installer provider who has similar or better
>> >performance for things we care about, e.g. reliable updates, support,
>> >_and_ is willing to host the binaries where we want them, we can switch
>> >to them.  While it is kind of disloyal to change preferred providers, we
>> >also didn't agree to have them be preferred forever, especially if
>> >someone better shows up.  Of course, switching might be disruptive for
>> >our installers uses, so we have to consider that too.
>> 
>> An alternative approach would be for us ("the project") to build 
>> official
>> installers ourselves, with those being the recommended ones.
> 
> Uh, we used to do that but found the user support overhead too much.

No worries, was just a thought. :)

+ Justin


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